18436572 Quotes & Sayings

We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers. — Virginia Woolf

Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body. — Joe Schreiber

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity. — David Dreman

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks. — Ben Elliot

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. — Kathryn Hulme

Many people under the influence of science, and particularly neuro-nonsense, will say the sacred is an old concept, it's just a hangover, but you can easily see that's not so, because everyone has a sense of desecration: there are things everybody values which, when they are spoiled are not just moved or destroyed, they are desecrated. Something that is vital not just to you but the world. People have this sense when they see their towns pulled apart and concrete blocks put in the middle of them. You only have to look at Aberdeen to see what happens to a beautiful place when the desecrators get their hands on it. — Roger Scruton

You can't save anybody. — Jodie Sweetin

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone. — Baltasar Gracian

We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view. — Steven Pinker